Trade and Trade Policy in the 21st Century Conference

Stephen J. Redding and Robert W. Staiger, Organizers

April 8-9, 2022

Cambridge and on Zoom

Friday, April 8
10:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
	Global Supply Chains
10:30 am	Gene M. Grossman, Princeton University and NBER Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University and NBER Hugo Lhuillier, University of Chicago Supply Chain Resilience: Should Policy Promote Diversification or Reshoring?
11:30 am	Break
12:00 pm	Hanwei Huang, City University of Hong Kong Kalina Manova, University College London Frank Pisch, Technical University of Darmstadt Oscar Perello, University College London Firm Heterogeneity and Imperfect Competition in Global Production Networks
1:00 pm	Lunch (boxed lunches) Lunch Talk: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General, World Trade Organization
	Trade Agreements
2:30 pm	Emanuel Ornelas, Sao Paulo School of Economics John Turner, University of Georgia The Costs and Benefits of Rules of Origin in Modern Free Trade Agreements
3:30 pm	Break
3:45 pm	Meredith Crowley, University of Cambridge Lu Han, Bank of Canada Thomas Prayer, University of Cambridge The Pro-Competitive Effects of Trade Agreements (slides)
4:45 pm	Break
5:00 pm	Renee Bowen, Georgetown University and NBER J. Lawrence Broz, University of California, San Diego Marc-Andreas Muendler, University of California, San Diego and NBER The World Trade Organization and US Domestic Politics (slides)
6:00 pm	Adjourn
Saturday, April 9
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
	Trade Policy
9:00 am	David Atkin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Joaquin Blaum, Boston University Pablo Fajgelbaum, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Augusto Ospital, LMU Munich Protectionism Unchained: Determinants and Consequences of Discretionary Trade Policy in Argentina (slides)
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Mary Amiti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Sang Hoon Kong, Columbia University David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER Trade Protection, Stock-Market Returns, and Welfare
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	Davin Chor, Dartmouth College and NBER Bingjing Li, University of Hong Kong Illuminating the Effects of the US-China Tariff War on China's Economy
12:30 pm	Lunch - Parkview Room
	Industrial Policy
1:30 pm	Sharon Traiberman, New York University and NBER Martin Rotemberg, New York University Precautionary Protectionism
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	Ernest Liu, Princeton University and NBER Song Ma, Yale University and NBER Innovation Networks and Innovation Policy
3:45 pm	Adjourn